“Weeks” by Ion Grigorescu, at Galeria Romana

The exhibition “Weeks” by the artist Ion Grigorescu, with acrylic works on paper made in the last thirty years, opens at Galeria Romana on July 24, at 7:00 pm, and will be on view here until September 1.

“The first “Illustrations to the Gospel” were exhibited in 1992 (“Politics, Religion and Art in the Face of Crime”, Art Home Gallery). The lot was taken over by Dr. Edgar Nicolau and, years later, scattered to other collectors. After 2010 I tried to restore my missing images and continue. The new lot was exhibited in 2022 (“Parallel Lives”, MNAC), as one of my two lives. Although the two retrospectives grant serious meanings – murder and a self opposed to another self -, the illustrations have their own meaning that emerges from their composition: a whole has 7 fragments, 7 days, which are related to each other and to life rhythmed by the end and beginning of work, Sunday/Monday.

They are like monumental painting projects, on paper because they resemble the whitewash wall, enlarging the pencil sketch of the sketches and redrawing with the brush the drawing they start with on the big paper. They are not icons, where the subject is known and requires patient work. Here the work is concentrated on the inner image and on the drawing, so as not to lose them working on the definition of the real, and therefore sometimes it is not carried through to the end. Or along with the image, starting from the text, creating another text for me as a viewer, in addition to the title texts,” says Ion Grigorescu.

The exhibition “Weeks, acrylic on paper, 1990 – 2020” can be visited from July 24 to September 1, from Monday to Friday, from 10:00 to 18:00, and on Saturdays from 10:00 to 15:00.